Hi Stephen, This question is project-specific and I may need more information from you to give the best answer. So my questions would be: Are there some "Started" and "Finished" tasks in your schedule? You can customize columns in Gantt Chart and show "Status" column in Gantt Chart to check. For the "look ahead" resources, do you simply mean the resources linked with "planned" status tasks, which are not started or finished? Sometimes our users ask about "one week lookahead", which requires not only planned status but also the planned start date will be limited to the next week. I offer here different best practices in different cases: If Yes for the 1st question and Yes for the 2nd question, you can use Resource Status. First, you need to create resource statuses in the Navigator > Resource Statuses panel. Second, select all resources in your project > click on the "Status" resource status set > right-click > Assign to selected resources. Go to Project Controls > Synchro script to use a script to automatically assign resource status without manually doing it. Use the script: RESOURCE(TASK.STATUS== 2) SET_PROPERTY(STATUS_NAME, "Construction::Status::in progress") RESOURCE(TASK.STATUS== 3) SET_PROPERTY(STATUS_NAME, "Construction::Status::completed") RESOURCE(TASK.STATUS== 1) SET_PROPERTY(STATUS_NAME, "Construction::Status::look ahead") click Preview > Run Change color Mode to Resource Status > set the Resource status Category to be Construction. Final look: 2. If No for the 1st question and Yes for the 2nd question, you need to first actualize tasks by assigning them start/finish date. In this case, I think you might mean in your question "planned finished", "planned in progress" and "planned lookahead" - all tasks are not actualized yet but you want to get a dynamic colour for resources when you drag your focus time . If this is the case you need to customize Appearance Profiles . Go to Appearance Profiles > Create a new profile based on Maintain > change Start Appearance to blue; Active Appearance to Orange; End Appearance to Grey. Change all in-use appearance profiles to the profile above you just created. You can either do it manually or use script. I can talk more details later if it is needed. 3. If Yes for the 1st question and No for the 2nd question, you will want to see the "one-week lookahead" resources instead of general "planned" resources. In this case, you can use Task Statuses. Go to navigator > Task Statuses Add a new status "One week lookahead" Customize columns in Gantt chart to show "Status" column Go to Plan ribbon > Gantt display options > change to Custom Activate system default Task Filter "One week lookahead". After that, press ctrl + A to select all visible tasks. Go to Task Properties panel > choose One Week Lookahead as the task status. Deactivate Task Filter. Right-click on the column "Status" in Gantt Chart > choose Conditional Formatting. click "Add" > "By Value" Set the value to be "One Week Lookahead", background color to be blue. Repeat the Add > By Value to add "Started" and "Finished" conditional formatting rules. Go to 3D View Properties panel > set color Mode to Task Table Columns, Using Column Status. final look: Please be noted that if you need to update Task Status in order to update your 3D View. 4. If No for the 1st question and No for the 2nd question, you need to actualize some tasks first. Then you can go back to the 3rd Yes-No case above. If you want to compare the planned start/finish date to TODAY's date. You can create a Task User Field "Task_Status_Test", calculate User Field Value by comparing their planned start/finish date with today and color 3D View by the Task User Field. The following script will return the difference between today's date and the planned finish date. DIFF_TIME(PROPERTY("Planned Finish") , TODAY ,CALENDAR)/3600/8 Based on this formula, we can create more advanced User Field formula to achieve the goal in the 4th case. Later, you need to costomize the Gantt Chart to show this Task User Field > Conditional Formatting to change its background color and change Color Mode to Task Table Columns, Using column " Task_Status_Test". Detailed steps are similar to the 3rd case. Thanks! Siqi
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